The Obesity Epidemic and the Forgotten Monster, pt. 1

The ongoing debate on an "obesity epidemic" here in America continues to be an extra-large one, and not without a side of controversy. Quite regularly, concerned parents and teachers struggle for healthier selections in school cafeterias nationwide, and frustrated residents fight against the encroachment of more fast food establishments in their neighborhoods. In spite of all of this expended effort in the battle against the "obesity epidemic", however, a great deal of American citizens, young and old, still can't say no to "value meals," to desserts bloated with sugar and cream, and to whatever may come from a deep-fryer, just as long as it's deep-fried.

But already too much ink and words have been poured on this subject from the copious vessel of popular news media, bathing the "obesity epidemic" in all of the rich and succulent rhetoric expected of popular news media. I, on the other hand, will have to forego the "succulent rhetoric," for I believe that the media's aim to render the obesity subject as juicy as possible for the hungry eyes and ears of their American, human viewers has absent-mindedly narrowed it. Obesity isn't strictly a national epidemic, for it indeed has quite a global reach, and it does not affect only humans, but also a lost demographic, one sorely and senselessly overlooked for decades--as the picture below clearly indicates, namely movie monsters from overseas, the lost international demographic I'd like to call the "Forgotten Monster," the subject of which will finally be given its due discussion in the next blog.

Beached whale? Sadly, no--it's Godzilla, and he has let himself go as the Obesity Epidemic, popularly known as a national and human calamity, has spread like a butter of slow death into the far shores of Monster Island, destroying all monsters with its hip-inflating power.